Century of Hallucination

first bone glue, now centaurs. China isn't inventing the future, they're inventing fantasy.

I translated the lyrics and she's singing about controlling servo motors so we're all good.

Greedpitalism

I don't watch any streamers, so I don't know how it's possible that 30k people would just sit there watching some dude play video games for 8 hours straight, but from what I can tell he's a productive part of the right-to-left pipeline.

Do a Google search for Hasan shirtless.

I've found deepseek to be very competitive for those kinds of low stakes questions, especially if you wanted to conserve your free tier usage.

Qwen code is not better than deepseek, gemini, claude, openAI by any output quality metric I'm aware of, but brew install qwen-code is free with daily limits (requires account), can be plugged into Roo Code (using the free daily requests in Roo Code). If you're trying to min-max what you can get out of free tiers, Qwen code has been an asset in letting me prioritize harder tasks to the better models.

Mutually assured distraction

How much has that been an artifact of Ukraine being somewhat geographically close to a Russia-involved military invasion, where you know the front line is few hours ride away, and could at any time move surprisingly close to your home?

As oppose to a 2 week boat ride to a mysterious mountain desert place that's biggest threat to you is that they could hypothetically 911 another liberal city you don't care about?

I'm not sure we could safely conclude this difference.

legs are a passing fad. RETVRN TO THE SEA